Word: select
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question of why men dream is just beginning to yield an answer. One still incomplete search involves attempts to discover a link-logical enough in theory-between REM shortages and mental illness. Another is seeking to discover whether REM sleep and dreams activate the forces that unleash creativity or select what people forget. The experts are beginning to suspect that man's future knowledge of dreams will be generated by scientists who have the sense to take their research home and sleep...
...Hotel in Las Vegas. With the full encouragement of the house and the Nevada State Gaming Commission, a computer has recorded the decision-making patterns of some 250 volunteers. The game that they are asked to play (with real money) has two parts: in the first, a player must select two bets, one good and one bad, from four that are offered him; in the second, he has the option to keep or get rid of a bet, depending upon how he judges its value...
...Design School Faculty decided yesterday to leave standing the refusal of the student-Faculty Assembly to select a student for the committee. The Faculty did overrule the Assembly's resolution that no Faculty member should be sent to the Advisory group...
...standing Faculty Committee was to be officially authorized to select a chairman for the Afro-American Studies program. According to an explicit agreement between the Rosovsky Committee, the representatives of Afro, and the standing Faculty Committee-an agreement made before February 11--a Search Committee was to be formed with the power to select a chairman of the Afro American Studies program...
...draft that found its way outside China early this year, will enshrine Mao's policies as official guideposts and formally designate Lin as his heir. The congress will also legitimize the new leadership that has emerged from the crucible of the purges. Finally, the delegates will select a new Central Committee. The old committee was purged of at least two-thirds of its membership, including such leading figures as President Liu Shaochi and Teng Hsiao-ping, the party secretary-general. With that, the congress will officially establish the ruling group that may well preside over the post-Mao succession...